Mushroom hiding in a crevice

[jeffesaurusrex]

Hey all. I bought a piece of LR that had some little brown polyps and a very nice looking mushroom that kind of glows in the actinics. At the LFS I observed it several times on different days to be out and healthy but now that I've gotten it into my tank it was only "out" for one day. At the end of the first day it started to kind of close up into a flower looking deal and now for the past day it has moved back inside the rock and it can barely be seen. It's been in there for a couple days now. Is it trying to move or what? Is it dying?

 

[inthesea]

Mushrooms are pretty hard to kill. Is it in too much light or flow? Place the rock in different area and see if the muchroom comes out. Post pic if you can.

 

[jeffesaurusrex]

[Edit: Pic attatched] I have a T5 fixture with 4 56w bulbs and I put the old fluorescent fixture that was standard on the tank up front shining right down on the new rock because I thought that they were photosynthetic, and that perhaps I didn't have enough light. I'll turn it off and see what happens and if I get no effect I'll move the rock. It's on the same side as the powerhead but the flow should go over the rock and the area looks like it would be kind of a dead spot.

The polyps are doing just fine, they retract at night and bloom out completely in the daytime.

Here in the pic you can sort of see the shroom, tucked away in the hole just to the right of the furthest most left set of two polyps.

 

[organism]

I have a T5 fixture with 4 56w bulbs and I put the old fluorescent fixture that was standard on the tank up front shining right down on the new rock because I thought that they were photosynthetic, and that perhaps I didn't have enough light.

It's the opposite, chances are pretty good it's not coming out due to too much light. The only time mushrooms need more light is when they look too expanded, I'd get that light off it and shade the mushroom a bit under an overhang or something.

 

[jeffesaurusrex]

Roger that, I'll try moving it around a bit. Before I even tried the extra light, it was sort of curling up into a tulip looking shape so it must be excessive light.

 

[jeffesaurusrex]

I moved the rock to a corner to simulate the condition in the LFS where it was fully bloomed. I moved it right after I posted previously and it still hasn't come out... On the contrary it has gone farther in and I can no longer see it. I'm still watching for it to emerge on the other side or something but as is I can't see it at all. Right before it went in I could see a small white curly thing, like a small strand of chaeto, but white, next to it in the hole it sat in. Could this have been something that killed it?